6Th Grade CCGPS Pacing Guide

6Th Grade CCGPS Pacing Guide

6th Grade GSE Pacing Guide

1st 8 Weeks

Reading Literary (RL) Standards—Fictional Elements

Standards highlighted green are revised for 2015-2016.

***The first 5 weeks of this quarter will be devoted to fictional text covering the first 5 standards listed.

***Standards highlighted in this color must be taught all year. Elements will be interwoven throughout the curriculum during the entire year.

ELAGSE6RI10—By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

ELAGSE6RL10—By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature including stories, dramas, and poems, in grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end

of the range.

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Practice careful and attentive reading of assigned and independent texts
  • Provide evidence from the text for all claims and inferences made
  • Read a variety of texts—styles, genres, literary periods, authors, perspectives, cultures, and subjects
  • Use annotation, note-taking—Consider keeping a notebook with relevant notes and student work
  • Fluency, self-monitoring, and self-correcting skills when reading
  • Read with rhythm, flow, and meter that sounds like everyday speech (prosody)

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching

  • Literary
  • Claim
  • Annotation
  • Genre
  • Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
  • Informational
  • Plot
  • Evidence
  • Summary
  • Analysis
  • Prosody

ELAGSE6RI4—Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Determines the meaning of unfamiliar words by using word, sentence, and paragraph clues.
  • Uses knowledge of Greek and Latin affixes to understand unfamiliar vocabulary.
  • Identifies and interprets words with multiple meanings.
  • Uses reference skills to determine pronunciations, meanings, alternate word choices, and parts of speech of words.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of contextual vocabulary in various subjects.
  • Uses content vocabulary in writing and speaking.
  • Explores understanding of new words found in subject area texts.

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching

  • Prefixes
  • Suffixes
  • Multiple Meanings
  • Reference Skills
  • Parts of Speech
  • Context
  • Subject Level Vocabulary
  • Greek and Latin Affixes
  • Context Clues
  • Alternate Word Choices/ Snyonyms/Antonyms

ELAGSE6L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies:

  1. Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
  2. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as a clue to the meaning of a word.
  3. Consult reference materials (dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses) both in print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
  4. Verify the preliminary determination fo the meaning of a word or phrase

ELAGSE6L5: Demonstrate understanding go figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

  1. Interpret figures of speech in context.
  2. Uses the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words.
  3. Distinguish among the connotations (associations of worlds with similar denotations.

ELAGSE7L6:Acquire and accurately use grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

New Standards to be taught:

Reading Literary:

ELAGSE6RL1—Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Corresponds to ELA6R1—Demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Practice careful and attentive reading of assigned and independent texts
  • Read a variety of texts—styles, genres, literary periods, authors, perspectives, cultures, and subjects
  • Use summary, paraphrase, annotation, etc. to ensure comprehension of text
  • Distinguish important facts and details from extraneous information
  • Distinguish facts that support your specific claim from facts that are irrelevant
  • Gather evidence for claims by taking notes from the text as you read
  • Practice reading texts within the prescribed time limit for your grade-level expectations

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching:

  • Inferences from text
  • Judgments
  • Citing Sources and Judgments
  • Character motives
  • Imagery
  • Review types of Genre
  • Story Elements
  • Setting
  • Plot
  • Theme
  • Character
  • Analysis of Literature
  • Sensory Details
  • Annotation
  • Tone
  • Implicit/Explicit

ELAGSE6RL2.

Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Applies knowledge of theme and whether it is implied or stated.
  • Provide a summary of the story without judgment/personal opinion
  • Provide a summary of how the theme is portrayed with cited evidence from the story that supports your theory

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching:

  • Theme
  • Motive
  • Analysis
  • Implied/Stated
  • Evidence
  • Summary

ELAGSE6RL3—Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.

Skill/Concepts for the Students

  • Students will recognize and cite specific examples of the plot including the beginning, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
  • Students will recognize and cite specific examples of conflict of a story or play
  • Students will recognize antagonists and protagonists in literature and cite specific examples of each character’s motives
  • Students will analyze each conflict’s cause and effect upon the story
  • Students will identify the resolution of the story and cite specific examples of how the conflict is resolved

Vocabulary

  • Character Types
  • Antagonist
  • Protagonist
  • Conflict
  • Internal
  • Character vs. Self
  • External
  • Character vs. Character
  • Character vs. Nature
  • Character vs. Society

Reading Informational:

**The following standards will be taught during the last 3 weeks of the quarter.

ELAGSE6RI1—Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Read expository text from a variety of sources
  • Read expository text about a variety of subjects related to grade level science and social studies standards
  • Locate facts that answer the reader’s questions
  • Cite evidence of a responsible explanation of the expository text
  • Draw inferences from the text which are accurate for aiding comprehension and application of the skills

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching

  • Explicit
  • Implicit
  • Inference
  • Informational
  • Evidence

ELAGSE6RI2—Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Summarize an expository passage without including personal opinions/judgments
  • Read a expository passage and determine the following:
  • Main Idea/Central Idea
  • Supporting Details

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching

  • Main Idea
  • Supporting Details
  • Summary

ELAGSE6RI3—Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

Skills/Concepts for Students

  • Recognize the author’s argument for or against an issue
  • Identify evidence in text which supports an argument
  • Cite examples from the text which supports the argument

Recommended Vocabulary for Teaching

  • Explicit
  • Implicit
  • Inference
  • Informational
  • Evidence